National Orchard Forum

• a desirable way of enhancing the effectiveness of local orchard groups by pooling information and expertise from around the country
• and by providing a channel for addressing issues of national interest, for example the implications of genetically modified cultivars or alterations in planning or conservation laws.
• encourage the formation of local groups

The channels of communication at present are a twice yearly Newsletter, supplemented by fliers as necessary, and this website providing information of national interest and facilities for individual groups to enter their own material.

A gazetteer, containing information about activities of 24 fruit groups in the UK is available.

Local Groups (NOF Members) Cambridgeshire Orchards Group, CAMBRIDGE Central Core Network, SCOTLAND Cheshire Orchards Project, CHESTER Community Orchards Chichester District Council, W. SUSSEX Cornwall Orchards Group, CORNWALL East of England Apples and Orchards Project, NORFOLK Rivers Nursery Site and Orchard Group, HERTS Gloucestershire Orchard Group, GLOUCESTER Kentish Cobnuts Association, LONDON Marcher Apple Network, HEREFORD Northern Fruit Group, W. YORKSHIRE Orchard Link, DEVON Orchards Live, N. DEVON Reckless Orchard, Monmouthshire Shropshire Apple Trust, SHROPSHIRE Somerset County Council Countryside Group, SOMERSET South Lakeland Orchard Group, KENDAL Symondsbury Apple Project, DORSET Tidnor Wood Orchard Trust, (Cider Apple orchard), HEREFORDSHIRE The Sherwood Forest Trust, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Tree Fruit Society of Wales, HAVERFORDWEST Westmorland Damson Association, KENDAL Worcester Orchard Workers, WORCESTER Common Ground A national organisation whose websites have information for orchard enthusiasts in localities across the country